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The SSD for daily use
My last post was about some technical facts regarding the Crest 6 Master by Angelbird where I promised to publish some results of my daily-use test with using my Lenovo W500 . First of all, keep in mind that the disk...
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The Need for Speed
Now it's official - I got myself a brand new SSD disk to get a little bit more speed out of my laptop. For comparing things I did a short hdparm test with my older Seagate Momentus XT as I am too lazy to look up some...
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Two years at the W500 - and now?
My W500 isn't really an old PC, but I have to admit that I do hit some performance limits by now. So what now? A new notebook? Geez... Looking back at the upgrades already done: The internal Harddisk drive was already...
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Switchable Graphics
The topic isn't something new - to equip a computer with two graphic cards to make it save power. The idea bases on the fact that you don't need high end graphical performance for your daily work and so a less powerfu...
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64 Bit?
My (new) Laptop got a 64 bit CPU doing the number crunching in it - and of course enough RAM to do it all. So it isn't a miracle, that the OS they delivered with it, was Windows Vista 64. So I looked over the whole in...
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Theory and reality
This article should show you that some things might sound beautiful although they don't work in reality. But even here we're learning our share... Today we're looking at my Lenovo Thinkpad W500, which should be alread...
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Lenovo W500 - So far so good
Since I am able to use my Lenovo ThinkPad, it's time to have a look at the result now. Talking about Windows, it's just the usual ranting - no bigger problems, disregarding the common ranting that Windows is not GNU....
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Lenovo W500 - Part 5
Today I decided to get the webcam working which can be found above the display, integrated into the case. Fact is, I haven't really looked at the device, as it wasn't listed as such. As there are no unknown devices at...
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Lenovo W500 - Part 4
After all, the current state of my notebook could be considered as 'usable' but not 'fully working', due to some components that still are unused or not configured. While looking at the components I stumbled over the...
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Lenovo W500 - Part 3
After the first installation steps were done, it was time to get Xorg running, which reminds us of one of the oddities of this notebook. Remember, we have to VGA cards here. But it would be too simple if things are wo...
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Lenovo W500 - Part 2
As the windows part was done, it is time to do the productive environment used for work - Gentoo Linux. As already mentioned in one of my previous posts, we are talking about a 64bit system. But before watching the GC...
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Lenovo W500 - Part 1
As my old notebook got to slow for my taste, I went out for getting me a new one. But that wasn't a easy as suspected. After some time of comparing and reading reviews I have decided to go with a Lenovo W500, which is...